I have a created a visual studio 2010 project that creates a windows form – it references numerous other dll’s.
How can I wrap this up in to a single .exe file?
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I have a created a visual studio 2010 project that creates a windows form – it references numerous other dll’s.
How can I wrap this up in to a single .exe file?
ILMerge is what you are looking for with the /t:exe option.
A sample call would look like this:
ilmerge.exe exefile.exe [dlls-to-internalize.dll ..] /out:exefile-out.exe /t:exeA sample usage of using ILMerge to pack up multiple dlls into one and internalizing them can be found here: dotlesscss buildfile
More info on using ILMerge can be found on the ILMerge Website.
You can also get it through NuGet via Chocolatey
It allows you to pack multiple .NET assemblies into one file by rewriting the references.
You can also internalize your dependencies in case you are supplying a library to someone and don’t want to cause dependency conflicts with libraries you are internally using.